The monitors also identified a new type of safety breakdown: Parkland’s police department has been doing a poor job of screening incoming ER patients and visitors for weapons.

There were “a number of events in December and January with potentially dangerous objects not detected,” the monitors wrote. “Checkpoint officers were not consistently adhering to Parkland protocols.”

The officers’ performance improved after retraining, the report says.

An investigation by The News recently identified another problem with the Parkland police force: poor investigation of allegations that caregivers sexually abused patients. No one was arrested in 25 cases the newspaper reviewed, and some people involved in the cases alleged cover-ups. Hospital officials say there has been no effort “to suppress or overlook incidents.”